Emancipation of Sib by Amos Mead (1798)

by Amos Mead

Volume 14, Page 368

Signed: May 17, 1798

Recorded: May 17, 1798

Fairfield County ss  These certify that we the Subscribing Au-

thority Justices of the peace in and for said County having examin-

ed Sib a negro woman belonging to and a Slave of Amos Mead

of Greenwich Do find that the said negro woman is about thirty

five years old is in a common state of health and desir-

ous to be made free we thereupon do adjudge her to be a proper

person to be emancipated  Dated at Greenwich the 17th day

of May 1798.                                                  John Mackay

                                                                        Benjamin Mead    Justices of

                                                                                                        peace

In Greenwich on the above date these certify that I do 

emancipate and make free the above named Sib as

witness my hand.                                               Amos Mead

Rec'd to record May ye 17th AD 1798
and recorded by me Jabez Fitch Register.

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